To dream a dream- Prologue

Konohagakure

"UZUMAKI NARUTO! Get back here this instant!"

Naruto laughed as he ran through the streets of Konohagakure with a bucket filled with paint in one hand and a brush in the other. He turned around and grinned at how many townspeople were chasing after him. His plan had worked! They were giving him attention, and whether it was good or bad attention that is the only thing he wanted. He hears an object flying towards him and instinctively ducks his head. A sake bottle hits a building in front of him and he frowns. They didn't usually throw bottles that early into the chase. He dodges the next few bottles and makes sure to maintain the distance between himself and the villagers. After all, if the people were this violent already, then he dreaded to think what would happen if they got their hands on him.

"Get back here demon!"

That almost made Naruto stop. Almost. His prank hadn't been the worst prank that he had ever done, and even during his worst prank the people hadn't called him a demon. He hears another object flying towards him and dodges again but this time he stares at the object in horror.

Someone had thrown a kitchen knife. A few more knives are thrown at him and after getting over his initial shock, Naruto lets his instincts take over. He ran as fast as he could, making sure to get as much as possible distance between himself and the villagers ; he didn't want to die!

After around an hour of running, Naruto stops in the village's forest. He can't hear any of the villagers anymore so he assumes that he can rest for a little while at least. He sits down and leans against a tree, panting heavily as he tried to make sense of what happened earlier. How did a little prank lead to him getting almost killed?!

"Naruto-kun?!"

He quickly hides behind a tree and watches to see the person who was calling him, come into view. Naruto smiles when he recognises the person. It was one of his main teachers at the local state school in Konoha, Mizuki. Unlike the other teachers, Mizuki had always been kind to him which meant that he could trust him. Right? After debating it for a few seconds, Naruto came out from his hiding place.

"Mizuki-sensei!" Said teacher turned around and smiled at him.

"Naruto-kun, I'm glad you are alright, you aren't injured are you?"

Something about Mizuki's smile made Naruto's skin crawl but he couldn't figure out why. He eventually shrugs it off and grins at Mizuki. "I'm fine! The stupid villagers couldn't touch me anyway"

His teacher sighed. "The villagers aren't stupid Naruto, just misguided."

He then held out a hand. "Let's get you to the hospital to clean up."

Naruto frowned and took a step away from Mizuki. "You want me to go back to the people who tried to kill me?!"

"It's alright Naruto, the villagers have been dealt with by Danzo-sama."

That's when Naruto knew he couldn't trust Mizuki. Danzo was the leader of this village, but he had never helped him before. Any child who Danzo did help, ended up going missing. Many people- including Naruto, believed that the old man kidnapped the kids himself. What for? He had no idea, but he didn't want to find out either.

"Thanks for the offer Mizuki-sensei, but I'll pass."

Then he turned and ran again, not hearing Mizuki's reply. As soon as his teacher was no longer in sight, he smiled. That smile quicky left as he dodged another object, except this time it wasn't an object, it was a beam of light.

Hold up, a beam of light?! If it hadn't been aimed at him, Naruto would have found it awesome, but he was more preoccupied with avoiding it. After a few more beams were thrown at him, a man wearing a blank mask comes into view, his hand glowing.

That was odd. Naruto was about to ask about the glowing hand, when a knife flew through the air and impaled the man in the chest, who fell down, immediately dead. After looking at the knife for a few more seconds, he noted that it wasn't a knife, it was a kunai, an ancient weapon that shinobi had used.

Another one of his teachers, Iruka jumped down next to the dead man. "Naruto! Are you alright?"

He wasn't falling for this trick twice! He glared at his teacher. "Mizuki-sensei already asked me that" he said bitterly.

Iruka frowned. "When did Mizuki get here? Anyway that doesn't matter because we need to leave."

"Leave?"

"Yes Naruto, leave. It's not safe for you to live here anymore, so we need to get to a safer place. Have you used your abilities yet?"

Abilities? What did he mean by that. At Naruto's confused expression, Iruka sighed and continued.

"It will be harder but still manageable, anyway, follow me."

He knew based on today that he shouldn't trust anyone, but Iruka was helping him escape, so after praying to whatever gods there were that Iruka wasn't leading him into a trap, he followed the man out of the village and into the unknown.

Unbeknownst to them, an old man had watched everything through a crystal ball. When he saw Naruto follow Iruka, he smiled and motioned for his guard, who came almost immediately.

"Hokage-sama?" Crow asked.

"Itachi, I want you to clean up apartment 22 as we have a new resident."

The ANBU nodded and quickly left. The man smiled and looked outside his window. The Konoha section had not only regained their prince, but also a shifter who would only need a push in the right direction.

Hello there! I noticed that Naruto didn't have any mutant aus, so that inspired this. Hope you liked it! Please give a review!